Asian Art Reference Books Online Auction

October 28, 2010

LOT 40

Lot 40

Twenty Volumes on Oriental Rugs

Twenty Volumes on Oriental Rugs
Lot 40 Details
Twenty Volumes on Oriental Rugs

Including auction catalogues from Sotheby’s New York: 1st October 1977; 28th January 1978; 4th March 1978; 9th June 1978; 7th March 1979; 13th October 1979; 11th December 1981; 13th December 1986; 3rd December 1988

Sotheby’s Geneva: 7th May 1982

Rippon Boswell Zurich: 16th November 1978

TOGETHER WITH: CARPETS OF CENTRAL PERSIA. Beattie. Kent: Westerham Press Ltd., 1976; CARPETS FROM EASTERN TURKESTAN: KNOWN AS KHOTAN, SAMARKAND AND KANSU CARPETS. Bidder. Washington: Washington International Associates, 1979; FROM THE BOSPORUS TO SAMARKAND FLAT-WOVEN RUGS. Landreau and Pickering. Washington D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1979; A VIEW OF CHINESE RUGS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Lorentz. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972; ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS. Reed. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1967; CENTRAL ASIAN RUGS: A DETAILED PRESENTATION OF THE ART OF RUG WEAVING IN CENTRAL-ASIA IN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY. . Schurmann. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1969; ANTIQUE CHINESE RUGS. Tiffany Studios. Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969; ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPETS: MASTERPIECES FROM THE TE-CHUN WANG COLLECTION. London, Frankfurt, Basel: Rippon Boswell, 1978; an issue of “HALI: The International Journal of Oriental Carpets and Textiles” Vol. 5 No. 2 1982.

Estimate $50-$100

Realised: $138
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

From the library of books and catalogues of a prominent Toronto Asian Art collector

CONDITION DETAILS

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